“But I think he is a very good person”. “Part of the reason I got into the race is because people like Paul Ryan weren’t stepping up to do it”.
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On Benghazi, Raddatz asked Chaffetz about the former Benghazi committee investigator who said he was sacked because he was being non-partisan and not exclusively focusing on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Sources close to Ryan have indicated that he doesn’t want the thankless position, which would take him away from his preferred focus – economic policy – and push him into the heart of the ideological battles within the GOP between the establishment and the stubborn Freedom Caucus, which has proven almost impossible to manage in the past several years.
The House Freedom Caucus is open to considering Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives if he’s willing to make changes sought by the group, its chairman, Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday. Ryan is assigned as Love’s mentor in Congress. In the past, he firmly said he didn’t want the speaker job.
“I think the next speaker has to be committed to that”. The two talked on the phone Friday. Paul has a driving passion to get America back on a path of growth and opportunity.
“He’d be an incredible speaker”, McCarthy declared to a bank of TV cameras after Republicans met behind closed doors to discuss their predicament. “But he’s got to decide on his own”.
Ryan will have a week-long recess to think that question over.
Ryan has been a strong pro-life advocate during his time in Congress and holds a 100% pro-life voting record. “Chairman Ryan appreciates the support he’s getting from his colleagues but is still not running for speaker”, Buck said. Well, his possible presidential aspirations. The speaker’s post, highly prestigious and second in line to the presidency, requires a huge commitment of time and effort in corralling a party’s House members.
Boehner would be working out a deal with the White House, compromising on a principle that conservatives in the House saw as sacred, to avoid a government shutdown or a few other fiscal calamity.
Chaffetz said Boehner is still committed to electing a new speaker by the end of the month. “If you were to say to me 218 have called you up and given you their pledge, obviously no citizen could ever turn down that kind of challenge”, he told Sean Hannity. The world will still function.
Before the House adjourned, outgoing Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who’d meant to leave Congress October 30, assured lawmakers he would stay on until a replacement can be selected.
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“Right now, I’m just going to catch my flight so I can make it home for dinner”, Ryan told reporters Friday afternoon as he left the Capitol. Chaffetz disagreed and said Americans have seen him be aggressive on the Fast and Furious investigation, Planned Parenthood, Benghazi and other issues.
